SUMMARY Background: The most common surgical procedures in small animals are neutering surgeries. Electrosurgical tissue-sealing can reduce blood loss, duration of surgery and anaesthesia, and thereby complication ...

SUMMARY The environmental smells influence the behaviour and occasionally the epigenetics of mammals. The epigenetic factors are regulated independently from the base sequence of the DNA and by means of the germ lines, ...

SUMMARY Background: Salmonellosis is a well-known zoonotic disease in different reptilian taxa. Keeping reptiles in captivity has a high zoonotic risk because of the Salmonella bacteria, which can be found in the intestinal ...

SUMMARY Background: The management of non-pregnant, subfertile broodmares causes a significant expense in horse breeding. Beyond the routine physical and sono-graphic examination, advanced techniques are available for ...

SUMMARY Background: The merle colour in dogs (merle: blackbird) is caused by a retrotransposon insertion in the SILV gene, resulting in malfunction in the eumelanin producing pigment cells. In homozygous (MM) ...

SUMMARY In the present literature review, the mechanisms of xylitol toxicosis in dogs are summarized and discussed by the authors. Xylitol, which is now widely used as a sweetener in human nutrition, causes a ...